Posted on 10/06/2008 11:19:28 PM PDT by pissant
When Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination, many had high hopes that his breakthrough would move American social consciousness forward into a post-racial era. Many thought the time had come when candidates would be judged by their qualifications and dedication to our country, not by their race.
To see why it is impossible for Obama to play this transcending role, read his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance." His Dreams are obsessed with race and race conflict.
This book is an extraordinary 442 pages that appear to be written by an experienced novelist who knows how to tell a compelling story laced with minute detail about everything from clothes to odors, fictional characters and invented conversations. It is complete with the colloquialisms, ungrammatical English and four-letter words that the author thinks are appropriate to the people he quotes.
Obama describes how he deliberately separated himself from his multiracial heritage in order to give himself a 100 percent black persona, different and alienated from the white world around him. Obama writes that the book is "a record of a personal, interior journey" to establish himself as "a black American."
With his new all-black identity, Obama stews about injustices that he never personally experienced and feeds his warped worldview by withdrawing into a "smaller and smaller coil of rage." He lives with a "nightmare vision" of black powerlessness.
Obama says that the hate doesn't go away. "It formed a counter-narrative buried deep within each person and at the center of which stood white people -- some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."
Obama's worldview sees U.S. history as a consistent tale of oppressors and oppressed. He objects to the public schools because black kids are learning "someone else's history. Someone else's culture."
He even criticizes his white grandparents, who worked hard to give him a privileged life. Their motives are a mystery to Obama because they came from the "landlocked center" of the United States, which, he asserts, is full of "suspicion and the potential for unblinking cruelty."
Obama grew up in Hawaii, the exemplar of a melting pot of races, yet he sees it as a place of "aborted treaties and crippling diseases brought by the missionaries." Although his mixed race was not a handicap in Hawaii, he whined that "we were always playing on the white man's court ... by the white man's rules."
One day his grandmother, while waiting for a bus to take her to work, was accosted by a panhandler. She gave him a dollar, but he aggressively demanded more -- and she was scared because he looked like he might hit her.
When Obama learned that the panhandler was black, he said the news hit him "like a fist in my stomach." Obama objected to the fact that his grandmother was "scared of a black man," and his resentment at her (not at the panhandler) was such a big deal that he referred to this incident repeatedly.
Obama immersed himself in the writings of radical blacks: Richard Wright, W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Langston Hughes. Obama's favorite became Malcolm X.
Obama scarcely knew his father, yet he wrote: "It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."
Obama described his happiness in going to Kenya: "For the first time in my life, I felt the comfort, the firmness of identity that a name might provide." He felt he "belonged" and had come home. Apparently, the only other place he felt at home was in Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church in Chicago.
Obama rejects racial integration because it is "a one-way street" with blacks being "assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around." Does he think America would be a better country if whites were assimilated into African culture?
There is absolutely nothing in this book that expresses pride in or love of or appreciation of America. In 442 pages of introspection extending over his life as a teen, undergraduate and law student at prestigious institutions, community organizer and working adult, he doesn't say anything positive about American government, culture, society, freedom or opportunity.
Obama's refusal to wear an American flag pin on his lapel sounded too trivial for a campaign issue. But since there is nothing in his book about respect for the flag, or the republic for which it stands, maybe the flag-pin flap does indicate his disdain for patriotism.
In his autobiography, Obama accepts the view that "black people have reason to hate." His later book is called "The Audacity of Hope," but his autobiography, which he has never disavowed, should be titled "The Audacity of Hate."
I just found this:
In his 1993 memoir “Dreams from My Father,” Obama recounts in vivid detail his first meeting with Wright in 1985. The pastor warned the community activist that getting involved with Trinity might turn off other black clergy because of the church’s radical reputation.
It is from an article in the Chicago Trubune, January 2007. Notice he is called a community ACTIVIST, not organizer and he was well aware of how radical Wright was. Wright told him so himself.
LOL! It's a good thing I wasn't eating or drinking anything just now...I would've sprayed the monitor and keyboard.
As Joan Rivers would say. “It’s True”
Let us bury this turd in the litter box where he belongs.
I’ve been avoiding reading the book, but it sounds like Obama is closer to Wright’s Black Liberation Theology than he says in public. Could it be that his racist hatred has been hiding in plain sight in his autobiography all along?
Agree.....I sent that info to Hannity.
Why else would he go to that church and listen that hatemonger for twenty years?
He’s Al Sharpton without the Pompadour hairdo
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Pretty much, all he’s missing is Michelle stuffed in the Hefty bags by “nazi’s”.
....BTW, Irish-German descent....
Would that he had stayed there, but I guess he didn't want to live in that mud hut with his brother George.
A liberal I know, when I said any curiosity I had about Obama ended when I heard Jeremiah Wright, said “Obama doesn’t believe that - he said so. Besides he left that church”. Liberals are so gullible.
Interesting point that the author makes - Obama is a racist and a hater with no good reason. It must have been Frank Davis who twisted his mind - but who knows - for whatever reason that’s BO’s comfort zone - hating whites.
Bookmarked
The audacity of Obama
Obama had an internal race war - and he chose sides.
He is a step backwards in race relations. A step back to the times of the Black Panthers and Malcolm X.
Contrast Obama with Tiger Woods who is also multi-racial and did not choose sides, but stayed himself and proud of all his heritage.
Tiger had a good dad and apparently isn’t mad at anyone and everyone.
Isn’t there some syndrome wherein a child idolizes the parent who abandoned him and rejects the one he ends up with - thinking it’s the fault of the parent that the absent parent has gone?
I think you are correct that Obama’s path is woven with psychological trauma and the working through of his personal demons.
However, as Gov. Palin said, “”The American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of ‘personal discovery.’”
Yes, I thought that was very perceptive when she said it.
That’s something I’ve been trying to say myself.
The media trumpets Obama and Obama trumpets himself as black (African-American) when in fact he is of mixed race.
And compare Obama to Tiger Woods who is also of mixed race. Its a world of difference.
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